Selasa, 13 Agustus 2013

Slave to Sensation by Nalini Singh

Prologue :

Silence

In an effort to reduce the overhelming incidence of insanity and serial
killing in the Psy population, the Psy Council decided, in the year 1969, to
instigate a rigorous program called Silence. The aim of the conditioning was to
teach them not to feel rage.

However, the Council soon discover that it was impossible to isolate
the one emotion. In 1979, after a ten-year debate over millions of minds in the
PsyNet, it was decided to change the aim of Silence.

Its new mission was to condition young Psy to feel nothing. Not rage,
not jealousy, not envy, not happines, and certainly not love.

Silence was a resounding success.

By the year 2079, when the fifth or sixth generation of Psy are being
conditioned, everyone has forgotten that they had ever been any other way. The
Psy are known ro be icily controlled, inhumanly practical, and impossible to
push to violence.

They are the leaders of goverment and business, eclipsing both human
and changelings, races that allow their animal natures to rule them. With
mental capabilities running from telepathy to foresight, telekinesis to
psychometry, the Psy consider themselves a step up the evoluntionary ladder.

In keeping with their nature, they base all their decisions on logic
and efficiency. Acording to the PsyNet, their mistake rate is close to nil.

The Psy are perfect in their Silence.

Summary :

In a world that denies emotion, where the ruling Psy punish any sign of
desire, Sascha Duncan must conceal the feelings that brand her as flawed. To
reveal them would be to sentence herself to the horror of ‘rehabilitation’ –
the complete psychic erasure of everything she ever was.

Both human and animal, Lucas Hunteris a changeling hungry for the very
sensations the Psy disdain.

After centuries of uneasy coexistence, these two races are now on the
verge of war over the brutal murders of several changeling woman. Licas is
determined to find the Psy killer who butchered his packmate, and Sascha is his
ticket into their closely guarded society. But he soon discovers that this
ice-cold Psy is very capable of passion – and that the animal in him is
fascinated by her. Caught between their conflicting worlds, Lucas and Sascha
must remain bound to their identities – or sacrifice everything for a taste of
darkest temptation..